Sarah sanders asserted brennan lost his access to highly Sensitive Information because of his erratic conduct. Mr. Brennans line and recent conduct characterized by increasingly frenzied commentary is wholly inconsistent with action to the nations most closely held secrets and facilities. The very aim of our adversaries, which is to sow division and chaos. Well, later yesterday in an interview with the wall street journal, the president gave a more revealing explanation of why he chose to revoke brennans security clearance saying that brennan is among the obama era officials that he blamed for the russia probe. Heres what the president told the journal i call it the rigged witchhunt, its a sham and these people led it so i think its something that had to be done. Lets go to abby phillip who joins me at the white house. A few question this is morning because as youve heard and pointed out a number of pundits are saying this is President Trump repeating a similar pattern of behavior that
Thats okay with me. Ive never respected him. Ive never had a lot of respect. Waiting for him to ask for a cut of his income. Patron proving that attack on one is an attack on all, members of the Intelligence Community including 13 former intel chiefs, rebuke trumps broadside against brannan in a rare joint statement writing, we have never before seen the approval or removal of security clearances used as a political tool. As was done in this case. Beyond that, this action is clearly a signal to other current and former officials. As individuals who have helped preserve the right of americans to free speech, even when that right has been used to criticize us, that signal is inappropriate and deeply regrettable. In explaining the swell of concern about Donald Trumps conduct former officials of all political persuasions, one of the signatories told me today, you cant do this. The Intelligence Community doesnt function like this. Speaking today to a source familiar with trumps earlier acti
Landfall didnt stop it. It has pretty much been stacked up and stationary on the carolina coast all day long today. Its moving southwest along the shoreline, but its only moving at a sluggish 3 miles an hour pace. Thats literally a human walking pace. Thats how slowly this thing is going. And today that very slowmoving storm has been busy soaking an already water logged area with up to two feet of rain. The result is predictably disastrous thus far. When youve got rain measured in feet and not inches, thats one thing. Couple that with the storm surge of up to 10 feet. That triggered major flooding, for example, in the city of new bern, north carolina, overnight and throughout the day, hundreds of people have been rescued from floodwaters in new bern. At least five deaths have been blamed on the storm thus far, including a mother and baby who died when a tree fell on their house in the city of wilmington, north carolina. Tropical storm florence is now moving west. And although its winds
The Prime Ministers Office moments before the attack began. He is now charged with murder. Awful news that the death toll went up by one. Tell us how the people are bearing this unimaginable weight. It is. Especially for the people of new zealand. They have always considered their nation to be so safe. Away from all the violence that seem to have impacted the other parts of the world and now they can no longer say that. The center of christchurch, the Botanical Gardens. People have tried to come to grimes with what has happened in this relatively small country. 50 people who have died and 50 who are wounded. It was not that somebody passed away that was in hospital. Apparently there was one individual who was unaccounted for in the count. There are still 38 people who remain hospitalized. And then this is a day of not just mourning but hearing about the heroes. And more and more there are heroes brought out. One man who was inside the mosque of the second attack. And he decided to act.